Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer
Location: Princeton NJ
Hybrid-local only

Job Description Title: Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS

We are currently seeking to fill a "Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS" role for MIAX, in our BSD division.
Role Description and Remit This is a hands-on-keyboard, highly technical, IC role.
In this role, you will own the buildout of applications and infrastructure in AWS and engineering of hybrid environments connecting our on-prem and cloud in a secure, resilient manner. This role will work in close collaboration with network engineering, InfoSec and application teams with a remit of a cloud-first thinking and support both on-prem and cloud roadmaps.
Strong written and oral communication skills are essential and candidates should be self-directed and motivated to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• AWS Solutions Architect SAA-C02 Certification required

• Deep experience is expected on IAM

• Architecting cloud solutions using VPCs, Direct Connect, IAM, AWS Control Tower. Experience with multi-account implementations and RCPs/SCPs (Resource and Service Control Policies) is highly desirable.

• Working with SecurityHub and establishing best practices around remediation and ongoing observability

• Partner with the software architects and network engineering in designing and improving CI/CD processes, and using infrastructure-as-code

• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, implement preventive measures

• Working with the AWS CDK IaC frameworks in Python or NodeJS is required

• Participate in applying SRE principles such as availability SLIs, error budgets, incident reviews, alerting and be part of an on-call ROTA Location Princeton, NJ

Organizational Structure The "Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS" role will report directly to the Director of Devops in Business Systems Development.

Qualifications Expected

• Three or more years of experience in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms

• Familiarity with implementing a hybrid networking architecture in a highly regulated environment- such as establish data perimeters

• AWS EKS, Load Balancers, EC2 Instances, S3 Storage, Direct Connect Gateways, VPCs, RDS, DynamoDB, Network Firewalls, ECS

• Experience with Cloudwatch Logs and Alarms and building observability around the AWS solutions

• Experience with Kubernetes - including familiarity with Networking and Storage

• Strong Linux background and containerization principles - OCI, Docker or packer/podman

• Experience with Kafka and managing Kafka clusters are desirable

• Experience with Jenkins or other CI/CD framework is desirable

• Knowledge of web services, APIs, REST and RPC calls

• Prometheus, Alert Manager, Splunk, Loki and Grafana is a plus

• Experience in GitOps for kubernetes - Flux, ArgoCD and tools like kustomize and helm

• Experience with Shell Scripts, Python SDLC

• Java or NodeJS/React programming is a big plus